The Sun. — London, England, 1838-08-02 00:00:00

friend, J. Sturg, that yen are about to hold a meeting in Bir mingham on SI very, and I trust slave.trzd will not be forgotten. There is an absolnte neceeEsity, in my very Jevided upirrion, that all t:le friends of the cause who do not feel disposed to be satisfied with a name, shoal(' persevere in those exertions by which our late great victory has b , en won—exertions oppowd by all the influence of Governmt,rt at 'home, and all the force of i rejudice and supposed interest in the colonies. Withow this continued watchfulness, I much fear emancipation may prove little better that a name. Suffer me further to remind you how much the hands of Go vernment will be strengthened by an expression of the uni versally existing public opinion upon the infernal slave-traffic. I mean strengthened in the measures which I trust are about to be adopted for obtaining the extinction of that system of rapine and murder now patronized by Portugal and Spain. It is shameful that other nations which have absorbed this trade should permit two of the most insignificant nations in Europe stiil to outrage humanity by such wholesale piracy. The people of this country feel as one man upon the sul - joct, and they h.ve but to express what they feel to extirpate the abomination in an instant. Wishing all success to your meeting, I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient meeting,, BROUGHAM. Sir E. Wilmot, Bart., NI. P. REV. XII. RILAND then read the report of the Anti slavery Committee, and move its adoption. JOSHUA SCIIOLPIELD, Esq., M.P., came forward amidst great cheering to second the motion. The gentlemen by whom the Report liad been prepared were deserving of their respect and consideration. As there were many dis tinguished and eloquent gentlemen to address them, he would not detain them longer, but move the adoption of the Report. JOSEPH STIIRGE then came forward, and was greeted with loud and general cheering. He said, before he ad dressed himself to the subject before the Meeting, be wished to state that he had received letters from two or th-ee mentleinen who were unable to attend the Meeting. One from his esteemed friend, John Angel James ; another from Murdo Young, Editor of The Sun newspaper, to whom they owed deep obligations, for the services he had rendered the cause—(much cheering)—and some ex tracts from whose letter he would take the liberty of read ing to the meeting.—Clear, bear.) It is said that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, and most truly has it *zee...l verified in the present instance; for with the powers of darkness, selfishness, slavery, and intolerance ranged against us, we, who were but few in number, and almost hopeless in result, have fought the good fight, and restored our fellow-men to enjoy that freedom to which they were destined by a common providence, and have raised them to that rank which - is the characteristic pride of all good men, and the especial boast of Englishmen, whose daily hymn it is— " Britons never will be slaves —( Loud cheers.) But I will not intrude on your precious time, and I have quite enough to do with my own. Rest assured that whenever and wherever the cause of freedom, humanity, or distress may require an honest, and, I will add, a fearless advocate, you will always find a ready pen and a willing heart while I conduct The Sun newspaper. I remain, with best wishes, yours faithfully, M. YOUNG. weal he was satisfic I, be acting only in aceordlnce c,ith the feelings and the judgment of the people of Eng land —(Cherm) Put it Lad b.rn instly ob-erved that iiberty was an ever germinating principle," and they thought the time was now arrived in which it was their duty to lend all the aid in their power to those wl:o were labi.tring for the overthrow of the monstrous e%il in other parts of the world. Ile was old when in New York that that many who had escaped from slivery in the Southern States were actively occupied in assisting others to do the same, and he believed that in their own islands, from whence they had been wont to bear only the groans of the slaves,-but front whence every packet was now bringing the glad tidings of their freedom, they should pot only shortly be able to teach them probably to protect their own rights, but at the same time greatly aid in extending liberty to other countries.—(Cheers.) The extent of slavery in professing Christian nations, might be in some measure conceived from a statement which beheld in his hand, and which he would read to the meeting : --(Lotzsi and vehement cheering.) He thoueit the meeting would he glad to learn the sen timents of a man who had done such efficient service to the cause of humanity and independence.—(Renewed cheering.) The third letter was from their able advocate and friend Thomas Fowel Buxton, and he believed it was owing to the misdirection of a letter they bad been deprived of his company that evening. The following is Mr. Bux ton's letter : !Jnitcd States Brazils 2,250,000 2,000,000 Cuba and Porto Rico French Colonies 350,000 Danes, Dutch, and Portuguese .lere then it would be observed that nearly one-half were field by Republican America.---( Hear, hear.) Th it count' y which boasted itself first upon the earth.—( Hear, hear) They told them that they (the British people) had bequeathed that curse to them, and surely if they did so, it was their duty to use their utmost efforts to rid them of it.—(Cheers.) To show them the difficulties which Abo litionists had to contend with there, he would give two exemplifications as to the state of public feeling. The instrument he held in his hand was cald a " Bowie-knife," named from a man who became celebrated from the number of victims he had sacrificed with it. It was used solely as an instrument of death, and, he believed, like the Italian stiletto, principally for assassination ; and it was said that it was now generally worn by the slave-holders of the southern States of America. This instrument, which he was sorry to say, was manufactured in England, under the name of a bunting-knife, was sold openly in New York in the most public and fashionable streets ; and what did they suppose was the motto, encircled in large characters, on its blade ? Why, " Death to Abolition ."—(Expressions of indignation.) The other fact to which he would advert, was,. the recent destruction of the Hall for free dis cussion in Philadelphia, where abolitionists of different colours assembled to promote their great object. This, they would bear in mind, was a " free" state ; and the out rage was effected, not by the ignorant and uneducated rabble, but by the active co-operation of part of the wealthy inhabitants, and the passive sanction of many others.—(Shame, shame.) An eminent abolitionist of New York, in writing to him upon this subject, said, " The burning of the new and splendid hall in Philadelphia occa sions much remark. It has brought out the cloven foot of slavery in this city. Sad to relate:, a large majority of leading men in Philadelphia and elsewhere tacitly approve of mob violence, when excited against abolitionists. The nation is corrupted by slavery. Its profits influence all classes, though they do not all see it to be so."—(Hear.) If the meeting would excuse him, he could hardly forbear dwelling for one moment on this event, which stamped such indelible disgrace upon the city of Philadelphia, be cause this city was particularly identified with the religious society to which he belonged, having been founded by William Penn. It was there he fled, with many of his friends, to enjoy that liberty to worship God according to his conscience, which he was then denied in Englan .— (Cheers.) Ile purchased the site of it from the In dians ; and though the treaty was never ratified by an oath, it was never broken by either of the contracting parties—( Hear, hear, and cheers) —and such had been the marked abhorrence of the Quakers to slavery, that more than half a century no member of their Society, even in America, had been allowed to continue so and hold one in bondage. Yet in this city of brotherly love, in the open day, in the year 1838, a splendid ball, capable of holding 3,000 persons, was deliberately burnt ; and it, was said that even the firemen had orders not to play their en gines upon it, because within its walls individuals dared publicly to advocate the abolition of slavery.—(Shame, shame.) But he confessed his heart beat when he read that during the period when this impious defiance of the lows of God and man was taking place, the wearers of the Quaker dress were marked out as objects of scorn and in sult.—(Hear, hear.) He considered it a far more valuable testimony to the consistency of their conduct than the thoughtless acclamations of millions.—(Cheers.) But they would be addressed by " the Member for all Ireland" on this subject—(Great eheering)—and he wished heartily he had possessed the votes of all Ireland on a late occasion— (Laughter)—she would be now more properly represented than she was.—(Cheers.) He was glad to say that that distliniuished advocate and friend of liberty had found time in his iinvveatied labours for the redress of the wrongs of the land of his birth, to meet them on the present occasion ; and may his voice this night (continued Mr. Sturge) reach the remotest regions of slave-holding America ; and may it rouse the slumbering energies of some sable O'Connell — (immense cheering)—who shall as ably, as manfully, and as successfully lead on his countrymen to the possession of their unalienable rights.—(Enthusiastic cheering.) Before he sat down he wished to say one word in reference to the slate trade (as it had bean alluded to iii the letters read in the early part of the evening from Lord Brougham, and also from Fowell Buxton.) They held that to destroy this monstrous evil they must destroy slavery itself.—( Hear.) Some of them took no part in the means hitherto em ployed to suppress it, because they believed the taking of the life even of a slave-dealer was forbidden ill the Gospel ; and how signally had such means failed ! Upwards of thirty years had now elapsed since it was declared piracy by the laws of this country, and they had since then expended from ten to fifteen millions of the public treasure in trying to suppress it by force of arms, and the result was, that the trade, which was estimated as transporting from 80 to 100,000 annually from their na tive shores, in 1807, was increased to from 170 to 200,000, the horrors of the " middle passage" were increased, and the whole continent of Africa were desolated by it, while an internal slave trade, to an almost incredible extent and enorinify, had sprung up in the United States of Amerhra, and, finally, th-v hail just commenced a new slave-trade in East Indian fill Coolies.—(Hear, hear.) 'ro destroy the slave- tra,le they must destroy slavery—(Hear, hear)—and to destroy slavery they must di stro y the vaue of slave labour, and to destroy the value of slave labour they must destroy the value of slave produce ; and he Loped the day was not far distant when their legislature and their commerce would in this respect be es much in favour of liberty as it had hitherto been in fa t l i o le ur pr o e f_ slavery.—(Cheers.) Sur , Iv they might derive encourage ment from the fact of seeing such an assembly a s sent on such an occasion, in the recent almost universal ex pression ef public opinion, in so much of the public press bring with them, including several of the daily papers, amongst which lie could not forbear noticing the d'ar'ting Ile, a m , and more especially The Sun, — (Chee rs, ) —and if t hey looked aercss the Atlantic, they would s e that in Ame rica they a'ready hail upwryds of 1,3-13 antr-s'avery so cieties, comprising half a mil ion members; and las . ly, he would mention, that tho rgli he would pay nn heem age , to Marshal Soult, because lie was a great w!:rrior, till lie could learn from his Bible why, while one man-murilk r made a villair, millions made a hero, yet he did rejoice to find that such a man said in their town the other day that the future rivalry between France and England must be only in the acts of ix:ale, and to know frorn good authority that he wishes France to follow England in the total abo lition of shivery.--(Chairs.) 1.1 e onclu,i,n l.c tvoulii urz them to individual duty. It ayes mainly, he believed, under Providence to tEe labours and prayers of those who shrink from the public eve, and who little knew while they laboured, the extent of the benefit they were conferring, that the cause had made the progress it bad; to them he especially recommended, as a further means of aiding the general cause, the disuse of slave-grown produce.—( Hear.) He believed it would be their duty to extend it to cotton as well as sugar. The faithful' example of a few on this point would he believed powerfully influence many, and let each of them remember that small as migh t appear the effect of individual effort, tl.e result was with him who often saw tit to make use of the w,ak things of this world to overcome the strong ; and as it was not for them to in quire why in his inscrutable wisdom he had permitted one portion of his creatures thus cruelly to oppress another, so it was net for them to say by what instruments be would work their deliverance, but at the end of time may each in this assembly have the inexpressible consolation of reflect ing that they had performed all they could to " undo the heavy burden and let the oppressed go free."—(Cheers.) The resolution was then put to the meeting and carried unanimously. " London, 30th July, 1838. " My Dear Sturge—All other feelings are abeorbed in the sincere and deep satisfaction arising from the knowledge that in thirty-two hours from this time those chains that have been so weighty upon me for fifteen years, as upon the bodies of those who have borne them, are so soon to be broken. I bless God, that he who has always raised up agents such as the crisis required, sent you to the West Indies. I bless God that during the apprentiCeship not one act of violence against the person of a white man, Las I believe been perpetrated by a negro ; and I cannot express my grateful exultation that those whom the colonial law so recently reckoned " as brute beasts," the fee simple absolute whereof resided in their owners, will so soon after the expiration of another day be clothed with the full rights of man, and stand on a level with these who once would have thought it an insult to humanity, and almost an impiety to God, if any one had presumed to suppose that their " chattels" and themselves were equals. Let none of us forget that those who are emancipated will be assailed with many an attempt to curb and crush their liberty ; nor that they want the compensation of the means of education—nor that two millions of human chattels in the East Indies require our protection—nor that the slave trade (of all evils the monster evil) still defies and darkens one quarter of the glohe. May that same public voice which has now been so happily exerted, and Under the influence of tha , same gracious Lord who bas wrought its present victory, ne ver be hushed while a taint of slavery remains. " Your sincere and grateful friend, (Signed) T. F. BUXTON." Mr. S'rur.oC then proceeded—He wished to make a few observations in reference to the object of the present meet ing, in addition to whsit had been announced in the adver tisement. He was the inete anxioua to do so, because he feared some Misapprehension ! , ad gone forth from its bi ing designated, as be regretted it had been, " An Anti-slavery Festival."—( Ileer, hear.) There was, 41ili ed, in the pre sent position of this great cause amply sufficient to unite them in a heartihlt expression of gratitude to the All-wise Dispenser of Events. It. was justly observed by one of its eloquent advocates in the House of Commons on a late oc casion, that it was often censidered a rich reward for much time and labour to succeed in the obtaining the abridgment of the term of imprisonment of a single individual who might have violated the lawa of his country, when that punishment was considered too severe ; but on that day hundreds of thousands of their innocent fellow-subjects were rejoicing in that liberty which they had never forfeited.—( Cheers.) Through the mighty moral influence of the people of Er.g land the sun had risen for tile first time upon the freedom of a large majority of their sable brethren in the British Islands of the West.—(Renewed cheers.) But it was not chiefly for the purpose of addressing them in the language of congratulation that ti:ey had been invited to meet together on that occasion. Ready as was their be loved Chairman to sacrifice his political and personal fec!- ings in this great cause ; it was not for that clone they would. base asked him to leave the bed of a sick son, whose illness was a source of intense anxiety, to preside at the present tneet;ng ; nor was it fur this that they invited the distinguisheihstrange , r3 who had favoured them with their company, to put themselves to so much inconvenience ; but they asked their presence amongst them that evening, in order, if possible, to assist in brinsieg what bad been gained in aid of what yet remained to be txcomplished ; and be wished to impress upon them in the a:roe:gest manner, that though they had come to thank God and take courage, they were only cn the threshold of their 1 abours. They must not for a mernarit forget that they had not yet heard that liberty was proclaimed to the negroes in any of the Crown. nor yet in seme of the chartered colonic.:—(llsar, bear) —and though they had much strong expectations held out by the Colonial Secretary that it would forthaith be secured, yet it could not be concealed that it was the result of the " pressure from without," and to this pressure they noiet look as a security for its a.esomplidteient.—(Cheers ) But what was m::ch more important, they had to see that the infant liberties of these colonies were not crushed in the hod: ; and they had abundant evidence to show that nothing but the untiring vigilance of this country would prevent this. One of the missionaries in . Jamaica, William Knit), before he had heard tife joyous news that the apprenticeship was floo it y to cces e rete to Lin its toilows Ever bear in mind, my clear friend, that the present laws Ifeclittg free labourers are »tore abominable than the Stanleyan mockery itself —that these ace. expire in 1840, and that on what is then done (and it deep at tempt will be made to re-enact them) the freedom of the hick depends. I do feel deeply on this subject. If this is reelected, we are undone. Va , salage of the worst description will be the res u lt, an d t h e b oon o f lib er ty, a ft er six years' probation, be stained with the tears and the blood of its ever-cheated victims."—( Hear, hear.) Another missionary, p J, M. Phillipp o , wrote a l so b y the lest acket : " Your apprehens:ons respectin g vaeraavagrantla as I have intimated on the other side of th e rater, • I s % •1 11 see by P the report of the debates contained in the 3 aPere: ' , are but t o o well founded, and the British Government must be urged to a vigilant watchfulness over every law that may emanate from the local Legislatures ; and in order to this, be not in haste to disband the Anti-Slavery Society. The precipitancy in this respect was a source of vast mischief in 1834—a sad and fatal error. It should be kept dis ciplined for at least ten years longer. Their existence will at least operate as a salutary restraint, as in the battle field a great deal depends on making good a a i, tory. After 1840 you may safely leave the safeguard of our rights and liberties to ourselve . s ; nye, and you will find us a powerful auxili iry in securing that of our more northern neighbours."—( Cheers.) They had also, continued Mr. Sturge, slavery existing in some parts of their East Indian empire ; but, he was of opinion that it' they did their duty, they were now in a position to realize the heart's desire of one of England's favourite poets, when he said, " Slaves cannot breathe in England. ' If their lungs Inhale our air, that moment they 'are free. They touch our country, and their shackles fall ! That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it, then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire, that when Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too."—(Applause.) He hoped they had some-Member of the British Senate then present who would pledge himself to bring forward next Session a motion that treading upon British soil in any quarter of the globe should break the fetters of the - slave of any country, clime, or colour ; and in so doing he E. BAINES, ESQ., M.P., moved the second Resolution. He had unfeigned satisfaction in meeting that great and imposing assembly--imposing, not in the sense of the word as it was generally used, but imposing on account of the character it gave to their proceeding.—(Cheers) He felt great pleas ure i n assem bli ng w i t h them to celebrate one of most glorious victories wliich future historians would 111Ve to record,—not a victory of blood, but a victory of peace,— not a victory of slavery, but a victory of liberty.—(Great cheering.) What victory could be more worthy of the feelings of men ? and, above all, what victory could be more worthy of Christians ?—(Great cheering.) He could sty, with perfect sincerity, that he believed this to be one of the most glorious victories in the annals of great Britain. —(Hear, hear.) On that day the shackles had fallen from the limbs of eight hundred thousand men, and it had ele vated the character of that country to a higher position than it Lad ever before assumed. It was not because t':ey had been glorious in arms—it was not because they had won the victory of Waterloo, and an hundred other battles by sea and la nd ; but it was because they had wn t,l at they had disinterestedeees and meted emi ► r re, acid that Christian I little which disposed them to saeritice ; he would not cell it by that o pprobrious term _but w:,ich had dispcseil t'.rm to apply twenty millions of the public money in buying liberty, for the slave. Let them show him another country which had achieved so just and glorious a victory—let them pis:lst nut any other country that had even made an approximation. What hail they asked of other countries which they were in some4le gree plelged to maintain ? They asked merely that they would ahstain from carrying on the slave-trade, and it was with extreme difficulty that even that object could be ac complished.—( Hear, hear.) There was a paragraph in a recent Act of Parliament (and certainly he did not look to Acts of Parliament far eloquence), but there was one pas s !ge which appeared to him to be one of the most eloquent he knew of either in history or legislation, and he could not deny himself the pleasure of reading it.—(Hear.) The passage would exhilirate the meeting ; and the more so because the present was the first day in which that pas sage found its consummation and fulfilment.—(Hear.) That from the Ist day of August (he would supp'y 1838) all and every the persons hitherto held in slavery within any British Colony, shall be to all intents and pur poses free and discharged of and from all manner of slavery, and shall be absolutely and for ever manumitted ; and that the children to be born of such persons, and the offspring of such children shall in like manner be free from their birth, and that from and after the said let of August, slavery shall and is hereby utterly and for ever abolished throughout the British Colonies, plantations, and posses sesions."—(Loud cheering.) Let them show him a passage in history that equalled that one in eloquence. It had been the habit of his life to attain to historical reading, but he would declare on his honour that he had never met with a pass age in which there was so much true eloquence, so n.ush pathos, and he hoped so much of truth. Was it nothing to contemplate: the freedom of men, women, and children, who were - nothing but slaves, while they wore the shackle of apprenticeship. He was of a much warmer temperament than his honoured friend Josiah Sturge, and therefore he felt satisfied that in all the British colonies liberty would be proclaimed, as well in those from which the accounts had reached them, as those they had not yet heard from. He did not wish to" detract from the merit of the slave-holders' voluntary surrender.—( Hear, hear.) He had always been a friend to the voluntary system—(Great laughter and cheering)—and above all, to the voluntary emancipation of the slaves. That concession, in his opi nion, gave a grace and a value to the boon, which could not have been imparted, if the motion of his Hon. Friend had been brought, as he (Mr. Baines) thought it ought to have been, to a successful issue.—(Cheers.) But the grace and effect of that concession would not have been so lastingly beneficial, as when the slave-owners themselves came forward and said to their slaves, " Go freer (Applause.) If the matter had been otherwisearranged, there would have been hatred, and perhaps a persecuting spirit, on the part of the masters towards their former slaves, but the concession lately made had totally prevented the occur rence of such a circumstance. There was a great advan tage in masters meeting their workmen in the bonds of mu tual attachment, and the desire to do each other good, and, therefore, although he (Mr. Baines) was among the num ber of those who voted for the Legislative enactment by which the a pprenticeship would be terminated, yet he rejoiced more that the matter had been accomplished by the voluntary surrender of the masters than he would have done at the triumph of that motion, upon the success of which he believed all the Gentlemen on that platform had set their hearts. If that concession had not been made, would they nst again have had all these fanciful distinctions of predial and non-predial until the year 1840—aye,or until as a friend of his, near him, had said, until the year 1850 ? and in that equivocal state the negroes would have conti nued had it not been for the energy of the British people, stimulated by the exertions of the Anti-slavery Society.— )Cheering.) This was the reason why he congratulated them upon so great and glorious a triumph—but that was not the sole reason. Did the meetingsuppose that if their townsman, Joseph Sturge, had not gone to the West Indies—if he had not bearded the lion in his den—if he had.not let the West Indians know that the people of England were aware of all their iniquities, that they would have that day to congratu late them on so great and glorious a consummation? No, it was owing to the exertion of your townsman, and he ho nOured the place of his residence, and h e was glad to say, to the exertion also of a townsman of his own, C. Harvey, who was J. Sturge's coadjutor, and companion; and not less did he honour the assiduous, and enterprising, and intelligent, John Scoble.—(Much cheering.) Others also co-operated with them in producing these glorious results, end he was proud of, and honoured them all. While he said this much, he would add, that he had always been subjected to the imputation of too great an au:lament to her Majesty's Mi nisters. He was willing to believe that they had acted for the best,a.sthey had an opportunity of seeing some xhat farther than others, and perhaps many of his friends around him would acknowledge that they were working for good as well as for evil. He would however waive a topic upon which there was likely to be some difference of opinion ; they had obtained a &goal advantage and they should take care that nothing ictervened•to mar finis enjoyment of it. It was not to be suppo ed that the evils and abuses of ages could be removed in a year or two, and therefore he would impress on the Anti-slavery Society the necessity of not dissolving until 1840-Indeed he would be rather in clined to keep them up till 1850—(Hear, he ar.) It be hoved them to keep a vigilant and watchful eye around them, and thus turn the meeting to its practical applica tion—it was nothing to meet and congratulate one another if the meeting ended in nothing else, but let them pledge themselves never to rest satisfied until the inhabitant! of every colony in the British possession were in the enjoy ment of liberty equal to that of England herself.—(Cheers.) That was the object they aimed at, and when that was attained, they might then sink into rest, and he trusted that not only would the works of these good men follow them to another and a better world, but that there also they would meet with hundreds and thousands who would have been slaves but for them, enlightened and brought to the knowledge of divine truth by liberty.—(Cheers.) He trusted this would be accomplished, and that its results would be to confer upon the colonies those Westio"'s of peace and industry by which their resources would b;: best developed, and those advantages for which they to ardently pantcd.—(Clicers.) . One more retnaele and he had done— e return had been lately made to the Blitish Parliament of the state of educatien in the West India colonies, ; that return was highly gratifying. There was a Society at work there which was scarcely known to the people of England, and of which his esteemed ar.d eloquent fiend, Dr. Lushiegton, was one of the trustees. — (Hear, hear, bear.) Under that Society education was spreading itself snore rapidly than in England ; there were schools not only for t:se igssorant negro,bsst also for the schoal master—it was sending out supplies too very one of the West Indian coloties, and diffusing the keowledge of r. li gious truth and education in ese ry direction.—(Cheers.) He hoped this was one of the points to which the people of Eegland would tura their attention, and with such trustees as D.. Ludiegten and Mr. F. Buxton, Ledy Mieo'e charity must bn attended with the happiests results. What..ver the amount of these benefits might be, to the people of Eeglantl (and lie did i of Insert to leave out Ire land) tie y were m iiely indebted ; and foremost among those wossld on all occasions be ranked the people of the sirit-al end indepf ndei:t town of Birmingham.._((,hi ers.) CHARLES' LUSIIINGTON, Esq., M.P., second , d the reso lution. He said it had been Jerez his wish to visit their flourishing to.vn, the kilts: itants of which were justly dis rnevislied for their industrial snterptise, their general in ts-.ll,gence, their essl; b litcy.c.l pl.ilanthropy, and that ardent attachment to civil and religious liberty, which had evinced itself in so many acts of enlightened liberality and rigorous p.itriotism, for the results of which, although not fully de veloped, and requiring much further development, the em pire at large had most abundant cause to be eminently [ grateful —(Much cheering.) Circumstances, however, and the pressure of vocations elsewhere, had prevented him from gratifying his curiosity to the utmost extent ; but although he was obliged almost immediately to return to London, he was thankful for the opportunity that day af forded him, by the invitation with which he had been honouted, to join in their explession of joyousness which cheered, and in the -effusion of gratitude which dignified and solemnized that most interesting meeting.—(Great cheering.) It had been well and justly characterised as an interesting day to hundreds of thousands of human beinrir, now emancipated in the various colonies. Let them only b consider the joy of the negro on that day—last night he had cast aside for ever the foul garb of slavery, because the apprenticeship was nothin g better than bondage—and that day he had put on the decorous array of manliness and independence.—(Great cheering.) That day he walked forth as a regenerated man, and he now could face 11;s oppressor—he could dispose of his time as he pleased, either devoting it to recreation, or employing it at labour, as his judgment or inclination may lead bins ; and no man could order him to work for ten hours, under the penalty of himself being flogged, and his wife and children sent to the treadmill.—(Hear, and dicers.) From henceforth he walked with an upright countenance, and if he met the man who had oppressed and degraded him, he could reply as a man ought, and reciprocate defiance.—(Cheers.) But the negro was not the only person interested on the pre sent occasion—they could not forget those who had dc voted themselves to the success of the undertakin7, and who had contributed their funds, and viewed with compla cency the progress of educa tion in these colon' es. But there w as a third class—those who bad devoted, their time and thei r funds, and sacrificed themselves entirely to that blessed work.—(Hear, and cheers.) These men had, in deed, cause to rejoice—the negro had the•selfish feeling of his ma numission, but the pleasure of these men was pure and unalloyed by selfishness. They could not forget the deep debt or gratitude- doe -to-such men—they could not forget him who bad gone to distant chines, wlich we.re . threatened constantly with pestilential disease, and_ who had separated himself from his family, and exposed him self to :he utmost danger. - It was said, that good men, after the performance of deeds of benevolen ,, e, slept soundly ; but, if he was any judge of human nature, be would say, that r, , st to-night would be denied to Joseph Sturge.—(Hear, hear.) It was said of General Washing ton, that he had never been perplexed but once, and that was by six Quakers.—( Laughter.) At the breaking out of the American revolution, he applied to six Quakers to serve in the militia—he implored, remonstrated, and threatened, and even imprisoned them, but nothing would do. Now the House of Commons, he could assure them, from per sonal experience, was a sturdy and impracticable assembly, when it made up its mind to a certain course, it was not easy to divert it from that course ; and, certainly, when the n - rasurc of negro emancipation was proposed it met with great opposition. Deputations from all parts of the country, among whom were many of the Society of Friends, waited upon him as well as other Mem . = hers of Parliament. They had asked him how be meant to vote, and he had said he should vote for immediate emancipation.--(111u3h cheering.) He was asked how he could reconcile that with his interests as a West Indian proprietor, and he had re?lied that he never considered the question in that point—he thought the apprentices entitled to their freedom—and he should vote for it.—(Vehement cheering.) Although they had met with powerful opposition in the House of Commons, there were always to be seen there men extremely busy, among whom were his friend Geo. Stacey, Mr. Alexander, and the impmonification of activity and übiquity, Joseph Sturge.—(Laughter and cheers.) The result of the second division was very delightful, and when the majority was announced he understood that many who were not much given to exultation threw up their hats, and of course it was not his business to inquire the dimensions of their brims.—(Laughter, and hear, hear.) They were now as sembled to express their sentiments of solemn and extreme gratitude to Him who had overruled their divisions. The hour of excitement was pressed—the moments of joyouness and exultation were fast passing away, and caution and suspicion must now be taken advantage of. They had pined a great victory, and they must now endeavour to consolidate it, and not allow it to be frustrated by those whose interest it was to continue the shackles of the uegroes. They could not expect habits of domination to be at once laid aside, and he trusted on that account the Anti-Slavery body would continue its most useful and energetic exertions, and that the eyes not only of the So ciety, but of Parliament, would be' onstantly directed to the West, and thereby preserve the emancipated appren tices from that oppression which they would otherwise be subjected to.—(Hear.) He trusted that mutual aspe rities would shortly be smothered down, and that they would witness a long period of tranquillity and peace, blessing the labours of their West Indian colonies. The resolution was carried unanimously. Dr. LUSIIINGTON, M.P., came forward, to move the third resolution. It was not without, powerful emotion, it was not without feelings of deep gratitude to Him who ruled the universe, that he rose to address them on that very memorable occasion. Memorable, not for the large meeting assembled which he bad now the honour to ad dress—memorable, not for the deep interest and attention which they paid to the subject now under discussion—but memorable for- the singular beneficence of Providence which on that day had restored that dearest and greatest of boons,syithout which nothing else was worth having, to hundreds of thousands of an oppressed people—their liberty and independence. Without liberty there was neither happiness nor virtue—without it all was degradation and crime—degradation might be the lot of the slave, but crime was the guilt of the master.—(Cheers.) Thank God for both—thank Him for giving liberty and happiness to the slave—thank Him for blotting out the eternal guilt by which these men had so long oppressed their innocent victims.—(Hear, hear.) The greatest blessing Providence could bestow was to diminish the extent of crime—next to that, and only next to that, was to extend the happiness of His creatures. Long had he wished to see that day, and when he thought how many there were who laboured so long and so earnestly in the cause, and who had gone to their graves without having witnessed its final consum mation, he could not but express what had once been his humble hope, that they might have been spared to have participated in that triumph which their exertions had so eminently contributed to achieve.—(Cheers.) Second to none in the cause was Zachary Macauley, who for thirty years, through evil and good repute, and in obloquy, in times of disgust, and in ridicule, was up early and down late, the able, unflinching, indefatigable asserter of the cause of truth and the cause of Providence.—(Great cheer ing.) But if he had been snatched away before that hour he had lived long enough to see that within a very short time those chains he had so long beguiled, those sufferings which had been so long endured, and that injustice to which they had been so long exposed, was fast sinking beneath the light of knowledge and the good feeling of the people of England, and beneath the powers of Ilim who, if he al lowed evil to continue for a time, did it but as a means of their cha4tisement. There was another he would feign have seen there, whose absence he much regretted—he meant his honoured friend Mr. Fowell Buxton.—(Great cheering.) Ile exerted himself in their cause at a time when the fostering spirit of the people of England did not come to his aid and assistance, as it (lid now.—(Cheers.) Ile stood forward in , those dark days when in the House of Commons he was in a small minority, and when the advocate of that cause was sure to meet with cold con tempt, and bitter silence, and the biting sneers of a large majority. He worked on notwithstanding undismayed, untired and unfearing, taking truth for his guide ; and he must, even when he spoke of that cause, acknowledge and proclaim that to him they were indebted for the greatest s-rviees. He would compress what further he had to say in a few words.—( Loud cries of "Go on.") He would tell them, then, first of all, the estimate made of the negro character by those who took the most favourable view of it bad been realized in all their past experience. There were none more ready to learn—none more obedient, more peaceable: or more docile ; there were none more anxious to acquire knowledge, whether religious or otherwise, or bettt r disposed to keep the law of the land in peace and good svi'l towards their fellow-creatur, s. Mention had been made by his Hon. Friend of the Mico charity, and in two words he would give them its history. One hundred and sixty years ago a Lady Mien left a sum for the re demption of white persons sold as slaves into Barbary. Two or three years afterwards that traffic ceased, in con sequence of a treaty, and the fund went rolling on for 150 years. By accident it came to his knowledge, and in conjunction with some friends, Le male application to the Court of Chancery, and obtained 130,0001. for negro education.—(Cheers.) Now, mark the trust on which the principle was founded. The sacred principles to whicirthey were bound to adhere were those of conveying instruction without regard to any religious pursuasion, and he had the satisfaction of telling them, that after being two or throe years at work, no member of nny religious persuasion, either Catholic, Di salter, or any other, had found fault with the cyst , m they hal adopted.—( Loud cries of' “ Hear, ' hear.") Such had been the confi 'once of the Got cm- Imeat in the manner ie which the Soviety was conducted, that !al. year a parliamentary grant hail placed in their hands no less a sum than 18,000/., and in no less than 1 e . glit or ten principal Islands, schools had been established, I and, he hoped, with eve ry prospect of complete and ulti mate success. There was one piece of information which he was sure would give them satisfaction :—By the kindness of the acting Governor of British Guiana, he lied received a communication announcing that sla very was to be abolished there aiso.—(lmmense cheering.) Now British Guiana was the stronghold of slavery— there. the apprentices were most harrassed, and there they had anticipated the greatest_ daficulties. To his astonish ment, surprise, anti delight, he found that the mover of that abolition which was to take place on the Ist day of August, 1838, was their former bitterest foe, and most virulent opponent (Dr. Mac Duff.)—(Hear.) If any man living seven years ago had told him that such an event would take place, he would have deemed it the height of a bsurdity.—( Hear, hear.) But such was the force of public opinion; that those who a few years ago were their bitterest enemies, were now coming forward to take their share in the praise of the final accomplishment of the work. Let them be received even at the eleventh hour, and, late as they had conic forward to advance that glorious work, he trusted their sacrifice, even at the eleventh hour, would be received by Him who was all merciful, in expiation of their past crimes. Reference had been made to the state o f s lavery existing in the different colonies and dominions or the Crown of Great Britain. He could not but express a regret that there was an exception in the abolition of sla very in their East India possessions. He understood, however, that measures would be speedily adopted to effect the extinction of slavery in that quarter.--(Cheers.) Hitherto it had proceeded as might have been expected— it h a d stood still altogether.—(A laugh.) Unless it was done by the power of Parliament called into action by the feelings of the British people, they would remain for ever and aye in the present degraded condition.—(Hear, hear.) It was the duty, then, of those who represented the . people in . Parliament to bring before it that great and . crying grievance. With the blessing of God, it was hi s intention in the ensuing session to bring the subject . of East Indian slavery before the House, and thus, if pos sible, relieve the crown of Great Britain from the foul blot of having one man in those dominions in a state of slavery. --(Great cheering.) A commencement had been lately made—they had all heard of the transportation of the Hill Coolies, and they had heard something, perhaps, of' the Government not encouraging, but giving a quiet and tacit, and rather active assistance to the exportation of those un fortunate indivi luals from- the East, lndies to the, different humanity-- on oar sitle.—(Hear, hear.) How de‘ight ed , settlemeets of the Mauritius and Gi.liana. He had the have I been at the language of our eloquent and satisfaction cf informing them that Lord Glenelg in the honoured friend this evening. America, through her thou' House of Lords, had stated that exportation to be at an sand village.; and towns — America along her mult itudino t g t end.—(Great cheering.). The order was rescinded—the streams-and amid the roar of her thousand waters w, contract. Was broken up—the system was repudiated, to re - hear the echo of her voice. She will hear that one of male shnelf.; hereafter a trontimeet of their folly. the most eloquent living ora'ors of the British Hurrah, he would say for the force of public cpinioa! ,'.tent, one of the most successful of professional men, —(Cheers.) Hurrah, he would say again fhr the one 'of the reoet highly-gif , ed and impartial of our e . It was not in the cleeiastical judges, has passed sen t ence o f eternal i. power of truth.—(Renewed cheers.) power of man to offer any effectuel resistance 'to the prom famy upon hcr.—(Much cheering.) Oh, yes, they n re 0., gress of their cause. Let them be assured that if it was infamous—it wes the judge who pronounced that seater: founded in justice it must ultimately triumph. Let them but want to have a verdict rf a jury ueon the S. use but the means which Providence had put into their question. As many of ou as are of opinion that they e s c t hands of full, free, and public discussion, and they might infamous, say ay,'.--(A loud shout of_ " Aye" int r __ depend on it that success would be the result. One word from the whole assembly.) Ave ! they are infamous n' before he sat down, with respect to the' address of the famous slave holding America, I believe their very American President :—A. more unfeeling address, - or one Ambassador here is a s l ave-breeler, one of those beingss more disgraceful to men enjoyingthe freedom ofliberty them- who reared up slaves for the purpose of traffic. Is it p2_ selves he never had perused. What he would ask was that sible that America would send here a man who traffi cs man who claimed liberty for himself, and denied it to others, in blood, , and who is a disgrace to human what was he but a base hypocrite?—(Cheering.) What I ture ?—(Hear, hear.) I hope the as;crtion is untrue, bt I , House' term in the English language could be too severe for hint? it is right to speak out. I was going into the Their jealousy was aroused upon that subject, for some few Commons the other evening, when a tall gentleman l y' years ago he was in company with the American Ambas• looking man , yellow and lank, • addressed nags-- ( sador, and he never failed to speak of slavery when he met laugh.) Sir, I ama stranger, and I wish to see tho an American, and he prayed them to mark the coward House of Commons ? I replied I will do what feelings of guilt. He. learned afterwards that his observe- can to accommodate a stranger. Y ou are an tions on slavery, and their private cow ersation at table, Americdn ? Yes from Alhahama. And a slave-owner I .. had been transmitted to every American Minister abroad. presume? Yes — then I will have nothing to do with you; It, showed that they were afraid of truth, andtbat those who —(Roars of lauehter.) This is what we should all prided themselves upon their liberty, and-who were rising fast do. Universal Europe should proclaim that any we e in civilization and the arts, and all that glorified man, had. who is the holder of slave=, was degraded in his moral cha' a stigma fixed upon their character, which would consign ratter, and not fit to associate with honest men. W 7 u ! them to the degradation and contempt of every honourable would associate with a pickpocket , a convicted thief, or a, and upright and honest man. The Americans trembled murderer ? You would not , and what is a slave ow ner . with fear, and God send they might — (Cheers) — and that Why, picking pockets rises to the dignity of felony, the they never might, know peace and quiet till those atrocious convicted thief', or the murderer, are men of mitigate d ruffians—for no other term was applicable to them—had crimes compared with those who make life one living s e _ put an end to slavery for ever.—(Great applause.) He perpetual - death. Look at the situation of th at was satisfied that the hour was approaching when they country. . In the first place there is Texas, lai c , would begin seriously to think of the dangers by which has been recognized by the American Gove:ntnea''' they might be beset—of th e horrors which would ultimately and it was a portion of land belonging to the Mexican attend any violent assertion of liberty on the part of the slaves ; States, which was fi'cbed from them by a set of land pirates• and that won by wisdom, and guided by a sense of duty, They committed and were encouraged in the robbery, be' they would now peaceably and quietly do that for them- cause the Mexicans had totally abolished slavery. Al selves which ultimately must be and would be done, he though separated by wilds from the United States, it was trusted, not in bloodshed and misery. They who . had set manifest that the negoes, in search of freedom, would be the Americans the example were bound to keep that ex- able to find a track through the otherwise pathless dese rt ' ample before them i n all its force—they were bound to tell and that the Mexicans would receive the refugees. It them, that although they did noLsend to Africa for slaves, was . on those grounds that the Americans receive! they did a great deal worse, for they kept farms for breed- Texas into their holy alliance. It may be said that Il ins slaves, and when they became fit for labour, sent them sptak too - strongly of the North American States, but , off 500 or 1,000 miles ; separating the infant from its me- thinkafter the language of my Learned and esteemed Frie na , Cher, and the husband from his wife, precisely the same as what falls from me is mitigated and mild, fit for tea an! cattle was bred in England.—(Strong expressions of indig- tracts. I do not mean to involve in one corntac e nat:on.) Yet these men asserted to themselves a high censure the entire of America—Joseph Sturge says there character for their love of freedom ; and he regretted to are 1,346 Abolition Societies in that country, and I V Io say, that notwithstanding all their exertions the slave trade these the utmost meed of my loudest praise. They are the was still on the increase. He trusted, however, they apostles of freedom and liberty, the bold and uncom prornisi would persevere in their exertions until slavery was entirely friends of the human race, who dare to be virtuous and grb e abolished. No mortal tongue could tell the horrors of the in spite of the horrible tyranny and cruelty of those etr e ' ', slave-trade as at present carried on, and one or two cious savages who insti:uted " Lynch statut e " t o murder st" instances in that point would suffice. In one vessel 200 who venture to own themselves the friends of freed° . slaves had died, and by the last advises from J ama i ca a Above all, the ladies of America, I understand, are taking e slaver was wrecked on the coast—the slaves were inane- strong and active part in the cause of humanity' cled, and not a single soul was saved, although the master (Cheers.) But, sacred Heaven, can anything announce and crew reached the shore in safety. These demons had the barbarity of the Americans so much as this sire / not the feeling to attempt the rescue of one single un- fact that the ladies of Boston itself, not a slavehotai ll i fortunate individual ; and this was the trade which Por- State, called a meeting! They met ; a l a d y was appoiltte" tugal, whose co-operation had been p urc h ase d b y E ng li s h to the chair, and they were proceeding to form an abolitioa money, carried on in defiance of treaty a ft er t rea ty. li e society, whin they were broken in upon and insulted, their was happy to think that they had a right to search and lives being actually in danger—and wit take slaves under the Portuguese flag, and until it came outrage ? American " Gentlemen.' I wish they had here to that, that execrable trade would be never put an en d t o , men, for they would not have done it. American " Gen Let o committed tP` .- L e t no t the feeling of that hour be dissipated and lost— melt" alone could commit this barbar ous an d u nheard . ° let them be thankful-for what had been don e , an d receive outrage, upon those whom it is the duty of every one * ° , l it as an incitement to more energetic e n d eavours , an d admire, and of every one who has a heart to love.-4 1 . 4 t more fixed determination, and let it be the glory a nd pride and continued c h eer i ng. ) They had not hearts 11",..r of the British nation to accomplish all those promi ses w hi c h heads—th e y were a di sgrace to their sex and spe cters had been held out to the world, and t o en f orce f or and I bl us h f or b e i ng a man when I hear o f suchat",,, their nation by all lawful means the abolitio n o f th a t traffic outrage. Th e ot h er d ay i n Phil a d elph i a w h at bar which no man pretending t o an atom, not of Christianity pened—a city that wa s b u ilt i n or d er to pr oclai m r - o r alone, but of common honesty or truth, or c ommon hu- broth er ty l ove an d c h ar i ty, f ree f rom the ta i n t jo inanity, had ever. yet dared to defend.—(Loud cheers.) slavery ? A h a ll wes built at coriderable expenee', l , o He begged to thank them for the kind hearing they had which persons of colour and whites were in given him—his principle motive in coming there was to pay habit of meeting, A- brutal mob, a well dressed 1n°" ... , his humble testimony to the undaunted courage—the de- the " Gentlemen" of Philadelphi a , assa il e d sh e b u ilding t termined resolution—the powerful and unshaken principles the persons within narrowly esc a ped w ith t h e i r lives of his honoured and excellent friend, Joseph Sturge, the building was set fire t o an d d es t ro y e d . A n d t hink the s ' which not merely led him to encounter the difficul- not that the loud v o ic e of i n di gnan t 'E ng l an d w ill n ot 1 33 s ties, and forego the comforts of his own home, across the Atlantic, and that the wretc h es w h o commit tee . 4 by going to the West Indies, bat to do m uc h more those atrocities will fi n d th a t our vo i ce o f i n di gna tion ', in persevering unmoved and unshaken against the too strong for them ? What is the nature of American slavery; cold feeling of the House of Commons—in urgincr. Iris That man is a chattel, the property of hi s owner, and th°, suite when his representations fell without effect on the un- it is a crime to teach him to read or write. In N°l . j i , ne v e lashes h s e h s a slave d eve im n p t r h is e on ß m i ,.! b n le t, was unishau willing car of tiic British Leoislature, and at last, by dint Ca-olina rt t y o_ n g of constant energy, baying brought ' about that consumma- with thi or It a i n tion which God had granted, and which they had now met he was liable to be fined two hundred pounds• hie to celebrate.—(Loud and greet cheering.) .p Georgia to teach a slave to write, was The Rev. THOMAS MoRGAN second e d th e reso l e - by w hippi ng and fines at discretion, so that In a tion. He observed that the meeting was remarkable father mght be flogged for teachlip, hi s c hild to read• on many accounts—the text differed ve r y much f rom t h e Louisiana the punishment was one year's i m prisonln el 'e sermon. They were cautioned not to b e t oo sangu i ne ; Could anything be more atrocious than such a sYs te 7o, but the last speaker, if his a:lvice was to be followed, ought It is said that Congress ha s no power to prev ent -i n to have withheld some of his strong and eloquent facts. They But even in Colombia, where the city of Washington l e felt assured, from what had latelyoccurred, that vietoryafter placed, no man could ca ll hi mse lf f ree f or a si° 4 e e victory must succeed until the whole field had been won. hour. Free,- under their atrocious slave laws ! The cheers with which they had received the Act of Honourable and 'Learned Gentleman here' read se'i ls Parliament, an ex t ra ct f rom w hi c h t h e H on . Member f or extracts front the work of a Mr. Abdy, detailing .', 3e Leeds had read, would M elee one to b e lie ve that it had horrors , a,:d crue l t i es o f some of the Am erle' of been but recently passed, but they should not forget that s ave-owne rs , rre a proceeded.) Is this a la" i a d it was p a ssed i n 1833—that it was printed in letters of Christians or human beings, or or have.the hyenas W 3 it y silver and gold, and that it had turned out to be so much tigers of the desert con grega t e d an d o b ta i ne d t he .% ? waste paper. After some further observations the Rev , of speech in order to p er p e t uate h orrors o f t hi s descriP tl° i e s Gentleman concluded by seconding . the resolution, which Men of England, I address you. Are these of your sc e t e ir e was carried unanimously. or kind who psrpetrate these cruelties ? And take o °, c h Mr. O'CoNNELL then came forward,' and was received that these have occurred in the eaeital of the empire, w`',. l l - with great enthusiasm. He said—l cam e 110 m il es to- was built for the establishment ()I' republican institutl°,); day, to tell you news.—(Hear.) You h ave h ear d it b e f ore What do we want? That into slavery we should thro" ' a s in some parts, but I have the entire story to tell you. The American ingredient, and make it impossible that thesete l l o first part is, that you have paid twenty millions of money— sters should be tolerated in any European State. Shall the second is, that you are now getting value for it. You told that their Legislature is o p en to pet i t i ons and a ddress are getting value f or it ; fo r a fter all, no quantity of money mark t i re fact —some petitions were presente d a t the can be the value, alth o ugh it may be the price, of liberty. Congress against slavery, b u t they enacted a rule that " ti , —( Much cheering.) The last time I had the honour to mail should b e a ll owe d to speak when presenting a l ie , r e address a meeting at Birni ingliam, I told you you wer e tion for the emancipating the negroes, and they • of swindled, and up t o th a t time you were. I repeated placed upon the table in silence and unread.—( o° ' - oi that assertion in London and other places ; and at " Sherrie,' shame.") The rule was as foolish as i t last honest John Bull began to, think that he w as cruel, f or t h ere are sixty anti-slavery, men in '"';: ir e swindled.—( Hear, and a laugh.) That is a position w hi c h gress w h o won ' t present petitions to have "-it;e Englishmen do not like to be placed in — when they give 1 a , scd in s il ence , b ut pet i t i ons to have tire .. ' re , their honest money, they wish to get honest value f or it, reap ieded, and 'they will then be able to argue on t he ar er and small blame to them—and -accordingly the people of sei di o" that rule, quite as well as if tl e rule was e ' he l England aroused themselves, from one end of the kin g - made ;at least if they are agitators of my description , o ne dom to the other, a y e , an d th e people of Ireland aroused will soon find that out. I came here for two pureoses, a id themselves.—(Cheers.) The Ministry were compelled to to rouse your indignation acetinA America, and if it s l o e yield to that cry—all the colonies that had Legisiatur es that th e A mer i cans learned this traffic front England' f' passed Emancipation Acts. In the Crown colonies, some th em now folio N her ex am pl e . Sh e h as se t a g loriou s t a , of them he knew are already passing Emancipation A c t s, ao r pl e , . an d b e li eve me the West Indies cannot et ' d and I have the fullest reason to assure you th a t you , tithe eight hund re d th ousan d f ree bl ac k s, an d A me rica I ce bL , ‘ may confidently b e li e ve the Crown and charte re d co l on i es - twice th a t num b er in s l a y ery . The hour is condert w oee have received per e mptory orders to lass Emancipation America will regret her conduct in t ars of blood. o r Acts.—(Cheers.) I ca ll them Emancip:tion Acts fo r duty terni.ins to us, and that is loudly to proelail l iee apnrenticeship was only slavery with a longer name, so hetr.l end execration of that pretended friend of fr ee ` .° lJ that only to-day Emancipation had commenced throughout who has given such horrible proofs f her • e Y 3 r o inecusistGo 110 1) ov at what has been effected in our own the British territories, and the sun which was row setting le u'ality. My next purpose was to rejoice with a in the West India Colonies, was setting over people who J were slaves yesterday. I have another fact to tell you, " ° This is the day the Lord bath made, let us rejeiee, l l ° i r e and my friend, Joseph Sturge, admitt e d it—y eu h ave done belltd." On t:ris day the negro w ill re j o i ce , for a i a lie nothing at all yet, because so long as there r ema i ns any long e r s h u dd ers w h en h e sees hi s ch i ldren pass °Ytiesh thing to do, nothing has been done.--(Hear, and a laugh.) no longer feels that horrible creeping of the „eth a. he real doctrine of agitation, anal lam a thoroughei- when he sees them growing up i n t o man h oo d and str e r a re tator, is this—to be always beginning, and so much remains from the conviction that they must either C i l l- n ter vet to be begun upon that we have done nothing, until the lash as himself, or b e so ld to some distant l'•„3tlier wu see the restofthe job enmpletell.—(He,r.) If we away - from his father and his family. The 111 " her relax our efforts the hill-coolies will be brougiA back. no longer weeps when she hugs her youngling to `c , It was our agitation which repeated the order in Coon- breast, but rejoices teat it is n o l onger a s „. - to cil which permitted them to be exported. If we relax, but a creature delighful i n h er i n f ancy, and pronr:si'Alerl the planters of Jamaica and other islands will take care be her protector in h er o ld age.—(M uc h cheering.) — l l not, perhaps, to pass slavery laws, but only jaws a g a i ns t to England th a t s h e gave h er immense wealthfor vagabondizing and wandering. about—laws to regulattetbe purpose, and glory to Scotland who stood by her in manner in which the negroes should conduct themselves. and, notwithstanding any approach that may attach Sal the We have done nothing unless we continue our anti-slavery I will add glory to Ireland. My friend Joseph t he agitation, and take care that the victory we have wont i s said, and said well, that if I had the votes of s a s tioei worked out . in its fullest extent for the perfe c t an d Irish Members, I would have given them for eman e 'r't be thorough freedom of the men who were heretofore I know we have been taunted for one default, but le t t :in slaves, and who owe to you the rising day star of remembered that when Wilberforce first broug l :.. ra det their liberty.—(Hear, and cheers.) The order in Coun- his Bill for the Abolition of the Slave rj t " oil is rescinded—the hill-coolies are not to be brought over, Pitt supported the motion, and for seventeen and we have had a narrow escape from a new species of it was the only point on which they were del" i oe; slavery, 'for a Bill had passed the House of Ldrds to le- When the Whigs came into office in 1806, and di e l s 10,. ° galise the slavery of these men. One clause, I confess, trade was abobslred, the majority of the - t irR" astoniehed me not a little—for it passed the Bench o f Scotch Members were against abolition. r t i le vva s Bishops—a clause authorising and requiring the Glad- Members voted for abolition, and that abolitioil a tn , stones and other pious Gentlemen to maintain Chapels and carried. So that if upon a late occasion, (and a d' places of worship for the idolatrous Hintloos they were to not here to vindicate or explain the conduct of 'T o rt a bring over.—(llemr, hear.) We have escaped all that, but leegnes—they were defeultere—they made up th e l i ne o o v the igit."o look at o ur East India possessions, and I rejoice to hear, the former occasion.—( Hear, hear,) I have , t t he, eloquent advocate of the cause of Liberty pledging him• sonic sturdy Scotch writers abuse the Irish, hu 0 0 0 self to bring the case of East India slavery before the forsot that the S cotc h Members vote d the 1)(4 House next Session. Will he allow me to have the way—row I s iy, Justice to Ireland.—(checriag•)e ;de) honour of seconding him ?—(Loud and continued cheers.) us rally together, and let bv-goncs be by-goner, arid se a iral c , r It is not alone the slavery of 2,000,000 of human bein g s, %yid work most strenuously to carry out the rei° but of the hundred millions of human beings, who suffer of the etnaecipatien.—( not le and the degrading slavery of leaving no title to their l an d, no could at choose to emancipate the Crown . _ er f e •, right to their houses—no spec i es o f permanent property— tercd colonies ; and I have no doubt they would cheer Cheers.) The Queen's Gove r ' o r" because this maladministration of the British Government do so. When I heard that Dr. Mac Duff; or Nac lu o, a ritY' in India had left them beggars in their native l a nd ; an d been converted into a christian I will have the ; when the last despatches had come awa y; th ey were to take even a Christian of that description, and k t the Pe • • rishine by hundred of thousands by famine ; the streams not that s i m il ar convers i ons w ill ar i se through." t heir were polluted by their carcases, the air . was infected by islands, the • plenters rivalling each other la tile, the corruption, and famine stalked through the land, which professions o f anxiety for the emancipation. °I. t a e° but for British tyranny and misrule would be fertile and negro.—(Ch eers. ) l'ais day should be an carol, tlere abundant. We have got more to do, we . are only b e - f or one , l am on l y b ee i nn i n e. I t rimy b e said, hoov ginning the fight ; but we have the power of British an i ns i gn ificant individual like myself attemp t t ,1- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1835.